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input_shyesterday at 7:47 PM3 repliesview on HN

Until it produces predictable output, it's gambling. But it can't produce predictable output because it's a non-deterministic tool.

What you're describing is increasing your odds while gambling, not that it's not gambling. Card counting also increases your odds while gambling, but it doesn't make it not gambling.


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IanCalyesterday at 7:53 PM

This is a pretty wild comparison in my opinion, it counts almost everything as gambling which means it has almost no use as a definition.

The most obvious issue is it’d class working with humans as gambling. Fine if you want to make that as your definition but it seems unhelpful to the discussion.

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darkhorse222yesterday at 7:50 PM

Similar to quantum computing, a probabilistic model when condensed to sufficiently narrow ranges can be treated as discrete.

SkyPunchertoday at 12:34 AM

Every engineer I've ever worked with is non-deterministic, too.